Vitamin 'A' capsules will be provided to 2.2 million children of the country from 6 months to 5 years through National Vitamin A 'plus campaign program.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Malek told a press conference in the Secretariat on Thursday.
He said, vaccination centers will be open from 8am to 4pm on the campaign day. Feeding Vitamin 'A' capsules in children's filled stomach is good. Vitamin 'A' capsules will be fed with scissors and will be fed into liquid medicines chips inside. Vitamin A 'capsules can not be fed to children who have been forced or crying or have already been infected with diarrhea.
The Minister said that the activities will be carried out through 20,000 more mobile centers, including 200,000 permanent centers, and said that the mobile centers would be located at different busstands, launch ghats, ferry gates, bridge toll plazas, airports, railway stations, khayaghat etc.
The special measures have been taken for the next four days to make the campaign successful in the remote areas, the minister said, hoping that under this campaign no child will be excluded from eating Vitamin A 'capsules. In the campaign, so that no crusher can obstruct this activity through negative publicity, Health Minister urged all to be cautious.
The Vitamin A 'capsule feeding program was postponed in January last year due to poor quality. When asked about this, the Health Minister said, now there will be no complaints about the quality of Vitamin A 'capsules. Lab tests done multiple times Hope you will not have any problems.
He said that in order to monitor or monitor Vitamin A 'plus campaign, the entire control room will be open in each upazila, district and center on the day of campaign.